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SUMMARY:Impossible Desires: New Directions in Queer Diaspora Studies
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nThe publication of Gayatri Gopinath’s Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press) in 2005 heralded a new moment in transnational scholarship in gender and sexuality studies. The book theorized queer and feminist cultural practices in the context of South Asian diasporic migration\, and served as a precursor to subsequent scholarship in queer diaspora studies that has radically reshaped the fields of queer and feminist studies in the past two decades. \nWe mark the twentieth anniversary of Impossible Desires by showcasing the work of a new generation of queer diaspora scholars whose work spans South Asia\, the SWANA region\, South Africa\, and the Caribbean. Scholars Kareem Khubchandani\, Suzanne Persard\, Mehak Faisal Khan\, and Jordache Ellapen will reflect on their own groundbreaking work in light of Gopinath’s book; and artists Al-An deSouza\, Chitra Ganesh\, Shahzia Sikander\, and Felipe Baeza – all of whom have engaged in long-standing dialogues with Gopinath over the years—will reflect on the artist-critic relationship. The evening will conclude with a DJ set by Arshia Fatima Haq\, artist and founder of Discostan. \n6:00-7:00 p.m. Scholar Roundtable: Comparative Queer Diasporas\nMehak Faisal Khan\nJordache Ellapen\nSuzanne Persard\nKareem Khubchandani \n7:00-8:00 p.m. Artist Roundtable: The Aesthetic Practices of Queer Diaspora\nChitra Ganesh\nShahzia Sikander\nFelipe Baeza\nAl-An DeSouza \n8:00-10:00 p.m. DJ Set\nArshia Fatima Haq \n  \nVenue guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. The Bowery Electric is a 21+ venue. If you are below 21 and wish to attend\, please email csgs@nyu.edu. \nAccessibility note: This venue is located down a flight of stairs and there is no elevator in the building. For questions or access needs\, please email csgs@nyu.edu. \nImage: This film still is featured on the cover of Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures (Duke University Press\, 2005). It features Vasantsena (Rekha) and Aditi (Anuradha) in Ustav (The Festival\, dir. Girish Karnad\, 1984). Photo courtesy of the National Film Archive of India.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/impossible-desires-new-directions-in-queer-diaspora-studies/
LOCATION:The Bowery Electric\, 327 Bowery
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SUMMARY:"Mamdani Mubarak!": A/P/A Prospects in the Mayor’s Office
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nWhen he is inaugurated in January 2026\, Zohran Mamdani will become New York City’s first South Asian American and Muslim mayor. The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU is pleased to host a dialogue about the prospects opened with this historic election. Please join us for a discussion about the issues on which Mamdani campaigned\, the coalition he built in New York City\, and what his mayoralty might mean for Asian/Pacific/Americans locally and across the United States. \nThe program will begin with brief reflections from organizers Sumathy Kumar\, Jagpreet Singh\, Ritti Singh\, Jay Wu\, and others to be announced. Moderated by Professor Paula Chakravartty (NYU Department of Media\, Culture and Communication)\, a robust discussion with the audience will follow. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu \n  \nPaula Chakravartty is James Weldon Johnson Associate Professor at the Gallatin School and the Department of Media\, Culture and Communication at New York University. She has published widely. Her current research includes a forthcoming co-edited volume with Denise Ferreira da Silva titled “An Anti-Colonial Feminist Critique of Capital: A Contribution to the Critique of the Global Political Economy” with Duke University Press\, and a manuscript in progress on Media as Economic Violence. Chakravartty is the Co-Director of the CRACS Co-Lab and the Editor of the journal Communication\, Culture and Critique. She has been an active member of NYU’s Coalition for Fair Labor and the NYU Sanctuary Coalition. She is a current member of NYU’s Faculty and Staff  for Justice in Palestine and the incoming president of the NYU chapter of the AAUP.  \nSumathy Kumar is the managing director of the NYS Tenant Bloc\, an organization focused on building the power of tenants from their buildings to the ballot box. She has organized tenants across the state for the last eight years and served as co-chair of the NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America from 2020 to 2022. As co-chair\, she helped found and lead the chapter’s Socialists in Office committee\, organizing  endorsed elected officials like Zohran Mamdani into close partnership with the socialist movement.  \nRitti Singh is the communications director for Housing Justice for All and the NYS Tenant Bloc. She spearheaded the communications strategy to win Good Cause Eviction\, New York state’s largest expansion of tenant rights in five decades\, and led the narrative work for the Freeze the Rent campaign\, which organized over 20\,000 tenant voters to elect Zohran Mamdani. Now based in Brooklyn\, Singh was previously a tenant organizer in upstate New York with the City-Wide Tenant Union of Rochester. She has trained tenant leaders and organizers across the state in media strategy and storytelling\, secured hundreds of press placements\, mobilized thousands of digital supporters\, and taught narrative strategy at City College of New York and Social Movement Technologies. She approaches communications as a form of organizing: making working class power undeniable\, relentlessly inviting tenants into the fight\, and building the belief that we can win. \nJay Wu is a policy strategist and organizer with the Democratic Socialists of America. As a former co-chair of NYC-DSA’s Build Public Renewables Campaign\, he led member onboarding\, legislative development\, and grassroots mobilization. As a result of the campaign’s advocacy\, New York State passed the Build Public Renewables Act in 2023\, empowering the largest state public power organization in the country to build renewable energy and create thousands of union jobs. During his term as campaign co-chair\, Wu also served as a multilingual field coordinator for Illapa Sairitupac’s Assembly campaign to represent District 65. In his professional capacity\, Wu holds an MS in Urban Sustainability from the City College of New York and works at the intersection of climate and labor policy. \n  \nImage: “Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani @ Taxi Workers Alliance Rally @ City Hall” by InformedImages is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/mamdani-mubarak-a-p-a-prospects-in-the-mayors-office/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Vā Moana and Hawai‘i Futures
DESCRIPTION:UPDATE: This event is sold out. If we receive cancellations\, tickets will automatically be released via a form below. \nPresented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands. \nA collaborative conversation between the artist Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence)\, Professor Albert Refiti (Auckland University of Technology)\, and the audience. ‘Awa (kava) will be available for those who wish to partake. Connelly’s exhibition\, Hawai’i is not the United States\, but it is your Future\, will remain open during the program for special viewing hours. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. Space is limited. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu \n  \nAbout the Artists \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Sean Connelly is an artist and building practitioner working collaboratively across sculpture\, architecture\, film\, and cartography. Connelly’s practice engages deeply with grassroots interventions and supports Native liberation\, food sovereignty\, land justice\, and cultural resurgence centering ‘āina (Land / That Which Feeds). \nAs founding director of After Oceanic Built Environments Lab and the nonprofit Hawai‘i Nonlinear\, Connelly actively cultivates ancestral knowledge\, ecological insight\, and social justice to transform built environments into living archives of intergenerational healing. Collaborating closely with cultural bearers\, creative practitioners\, and Indigenous experts across Pae ‘Āina Hawai‘i (Hawaiian Islands)\, Connelly’s work contributes to a grassroots community of care\, actively shaping liberated oceanic futures. He is the 2025 Artist-in-Residence at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. \nLeali’ifano Dr. Albert Refiti is the leader in critical studies research on spatial design and architectural environments in the Pacific\, with a focus on material culture and ethnography on the subject. He advanced the discipline by creating a method of spatial exposition to examine the notion of vā (space) and wā (time) as central mechanisms to understand Pacific societies and their buildings\, artifacts\, and social system. \nRefiti practised architecture in Auckland (1990\, 1994-2002) and London (1991-1993) before beginning his academic career at Auckland University of Technology in 2002. He founded Vā Moana Research Cluster with Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul in 2012\, a successful platform setting the agenda for international research that engages Indigenous Pacific and Western thought to study Pacific notions of space. Based at Auckland University of Technology’s School of Art and Design\, Vā Moana has created a far-reaching network of international scholars whose research transforms ways of thinking about contemporary and customary Pacific understandings of the world\, by examining Indigenous Moana modes of producing space\, objects\, rituals\, and performance; develop new to promote discussion and publications from Pacific perspectives; focus on how Pacific concepts affect the production of space and the use of the built environment\, re-exploring and extending customary knowledge alongside academic discourse. \n  \n  \nImage: Photograph of Hawai’i is not the United States\, but it is your Future. Installation by Sean Connelly. ©Creighton: Courtesy of NYU Photo Bureau.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/va-moana-and-hawaii-futures/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Dang Weiyu
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nDang Weiyu (PhD candidate\, NYU Department of Social & Cultural Analysis) presents “Weaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire” at this session of the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. This meeting is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\nWeaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire \nAs Allied victory beckoned in 1943\, the Rockefeller Foundation (RF) avidly promoted multilingualism and international understanding as hallmarks of US postwar leadership. “Oriental languages” were indispensable for conventional and psychological warfare in the Pacific\, but perhaps more importantly for the occupation and “liberation” of Japanese and European colonies into a US-led global order. Alongside the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS)\, Social Science Research Council (SSRC)\, and elite universities\, the RF created centers devoted to international understanding through language and cultural study. While Cold War area studies has been amply critiqued\, the transformation of foreign study into intellectual ammunition for US national security remains understudied. As these programs have been disemboweled and demonized over the past year\, their origins illuminate how international understanding has become so contentious for contemporary national security and self-understanding. \n“Weaponized Understanding: Foreign Study\, National Security\, and the Philanthropic Foundations of a Humanistic Empire” locates the origins of foreign study in the interwar invention of the humanities. This dissertation chapter shows how the RF articulated a “humanistic empire” by deputizing the ACLS and SSRC along racial and geopolitical lines to reorganize US knowledge production between the wars. While its newly formed Division of Social Sciences investigated domestic social ills through the SSRC’s supposedly race-neutral methods\, a companion Division of Humanities deployed the ACLS to remedy international racial prejudice through foreign study. Crucially\, this managerial remit secularized a Protestant missionary pursuit of foreign souls into a domestic project of redemption by cultivating a moral public capable of sympathizing with foreign peoples and cultures. In weaponizing international understanding for geopolitical ends\, philanthropic–academic partnerships laid the ideological and institutional groundwork of the Cold War battle for hearts and minds. Yet\, framing intolerance as national security risks also positioned the United States as an imperfect society to be civilized through humanistic education in foreign ideas—a show of humility that catalyzed a McCarthyist backlash now hardened into an enduring suspicion toward foreign sympathy as an anti-American menace from within. \n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \nImage credit: “Oriental Languages Become Weapons\,” March 1943 Trustees Bulletin\, Folder “Program and Policy\, 1915-1959\,” Series 911 “Humanities\,” Record Group 3.1 “Administration\, Program and Policy\,” Rockefeller Foundation Records\, Rockefeller Archive Center.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-dang-weiyu/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, room 372\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU\, NYU Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication\, and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. \nREGISTER \nEdited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews\, Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power (Duke University Press\, 2025) is the first comprehensive volume to explore the impact of empire on Afghanistan’s past and present. It features cross-disciplinary\, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan and paths to decolonial futures. With a particular focus on the US intervention that began in 2001\, the collection marks a decolonial turn in Afghanistan and American studies. \nThis event will feature contributors speaking on topics from media\, developmentalism\, and funding practices to anthropological approaches to US military tactics and autoethnographic work on Indigeneity and migration: \nMatthieu Aikins\, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist\nWazhmah Osman\, Temple University\nZohra Saed\, Macaulay Honors College & CUNY Graduate Center\nMorwari Zafar\, Georgetown University\nPaula Chakravartty\, NYU Critical Racial Anti Colonial Study Co-Lab \nwith discussants:\nManan Ahmed\, Columbia University\nOla Galal\, NYU \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible via elevator. If you have any access needs\, please email mcc@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power/
LOCATION:239 Greene St\, 239 Greene St\, New York\, NY\, 10003\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251029T180000
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SUMMARY:Opening for Hawai‘i is not the United States\, but it is your Future
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nA solo exhibition by Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence)\, Hawai‘i is not the United States\, but it is your Future invites viewers to consider the built environment as oceanic\, an interconnected system requiring collective cultural efforts to sustain. \nJoin us for the opening\, which will feature remarks from the artist\, on Wednesday\, October 29. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue is accessible for wheelchair users. There are all gender restrooms. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu \n  \nBorn and raised in Honolulu\, Sean Connelly is an artist and building practitioner working collaboratively across sculpture\, architecture\, film\, and cartography. Connelly’s practice engages deeply with grassroots interventions and supports Native liberation\, food sovereignty\, land justice\, and cultural resurgence centering ‘āina (Land / That Which Feeds). \nAs founding director of After Oceanic Built Environments Lab and the nonprofit Hawai‘i Nonlinear\, Connelly actively cultivates ancestral knowledge\, ecological insight\, and social justice to transform built environments into living archives of intergenerational healing. Collaborating closely with cultural bearers\, creative practitioners\, and Indigenous experts across Pae ‘Āina Hawai‘i (Hawaiian Islands)\, Connelly’s work contributes to a grassroots community of care\, actively shaping liberated oceanic futures. He is the 2025 Artist-in-Residence at the A/P/A Institute at NYU.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/opening-for-hawaii-is-not-the-united-states-but-it-is-your-future/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, first floor gallery\, 20 Cooper Square\, first floor\, New York
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting: Academic Job Market Q+A with Prof. Minju Bae
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nProfessor Minju Bae (NYU Gallatin) joins the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group‘s October workshop session for an open discussion on preparing for the academic job market. Topics covered will include C.V.s\, cover letters\, and job talks. Attendees are encouraged to come with their own questions for this session\, which is open to all graduate students working in and around the field of A/P/A Studies. Lunch will be served. \n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-academic-job-market-qa-with-prof-minju-bae/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, room 372\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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SUMMARY:Unruly Comparison: Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nAlvin K. Wong (University of Hong Kong) joins the NYU Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality for a discussion about his new book Unruly Comparison Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nThe book examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature\, cinema\, visual culture\, and civil society. Moving beyond Eurocentrism in queer theory and China-centrism in area studies\, Wong frames Hong Kong as a model for global comparison by theorizing a method of unruly comparison—acknowledging the incommensurability of cultural texts and queer figures across different temporal and spatial locations. Here\, unruly comparison positions Hong Kong as an undefinable time-space that troubles historicist\, colonial\, and China-centric renderings of the city as merely a site of British colonial legacy\, Chinese rule\, or global capital. Wong analyzes queer interracial desire in World War II; a cinema of gay male cosmopolitanism; queer intimacy among migrant workers; trans visuality and legality; cross-border sex work; and the queer diaspora of Hong Kong after the 2019 protests. Through Wong’s readings\, Hong Kong becomes a queer region of racial\, gender\, and sexual incommensurability. By foregrounding the friction\, asymmetry\, and perverse juxtapositions of unruly comparison of Hong Kong with the Sinophone world\, Wong reframes key debates in queer theory and East Asian studies. \nA limited number of free copies will be available at the event. \nAlvin K. Wong is assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures. His research covers Hong Kong literature and cinema\, Sinophone studies\, queer theory\, and transnational feminism. His book Unruly Comparison: Queerness\, Hong Kong\, and the Sinophone is published by Duke University Press in 2025. He has also published in journals such as Journal of Lesbian Studies\, Gender\, Place & Culture\, Culture\, Theory\, and Critique\, Cultural Dynamics\, Continuum\, Diacritics\, Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, Interventions\, and Screen. He also coedited the volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge\, 2020). Alvin is the editor of the journal Continuum and Chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies. \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms\, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email csgs@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/unruly-comparison-queerness-hong-kong-and-the-sinophone/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251015T093000
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SUMMARY:Detention and Deportation Conference
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the NYU Migration Network. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.\n\nREGISTER \nJoin the NYU Migration Network for a full-day conference exploring detention and deportation from multiple angles—past\, present\, and future. Through four panels with scholars\, journalists\, policy experts\, and activists\, we’ll examine how these practices shape US politics and immigration policy\, from the historical roots of detention to the latest technologies of enforcement\, and the on-the-ground organizing happening in New York City today. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: If you have any access needs\, please email migration-network@nyu.edu. \n  \nPanel 1: The politics and policy of detention and deportation under Trump 2\n10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m. \nThis panel sets the stage for a discussion of detention and deportation in the context of today’s politics and policies. Together\, the panelists will help us make sense of the impact of this administration’s policies on the lives of immigrants and the way that a politics of detention and deportation is reshaping the United States of America. \nFeatured Panelists:\nAdam Cox (New York University)\nMuzaffar Chishti (Migration Policy Institute)\nTanya Greene (Human Rights Watch)\nMiriam Jordan (New York Times)\nModerated by Natasha Iskander \nPanel 2: History of detention and deportation\n12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. \nThis keynote discussion will situate this unprecedented moment in the context of the contemporary history and geography of detention and deportation in immigration enforcement. \nFeatured Keynote Speaker:\nAlison Mountz (University of Toronto)\nModerated by Radha S. Hegde \nPanel 3: Technologies of detention and deportation\n1:30pm-3:00pm \nThis panel focuses on the technologies and infrastructure of detention and deportation\, from digital surveillance to the bureaucratic structure of ICE\, to the financial institutions embedded in the business of detention. \nFeatured Panelists:\nKimberly Morgan (George Washington University)\nMatthew Guariglia (Electronic Frontier Foundation)\nNancy Hiemstra (Stony Brook University)\nWilliam Turton (Propublica)\nModerated by Aisha Khan \nPanel 4: Activists in NYC\n3:15pm-4:00pm \nThis panel brings together activist organizations and student groups to discuss the work that they are doing on the ground to support New Yorkers who are vulnerable to detention and deportation. The discussion will include a know-your-rights training. \nPhotograph source: Whitehouse.gov under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/detention-and-deportation-conference/
LOCATION:NYU Wagner\, Main Event Space\, 105 E 17th Street\, New York\, NY
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SUMMARY:Tatou Festival: Action\, Climate Awareness\, Activism
DESCRIPTION:Registration for this event is now closed. Walk-in guests will be accommodated as capacity allows. \nA Tatou Festival Program. Presented by Te Ao Mana. Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nIn partnership with the Tatou Festival\, the A/P/A Institute at NYU hosts a special screening of poignant short films by Native filmmakers from the Pacific\, followed by wala’au with the artists and their collaborators. \nThe program will feature artists Dakota Camacho (Etak and Mali’e’)\, Lanihuli Kanahele (The Uluwehi Project)\, Leilehua Lanzilotti (the sky in our hands\, our hands in the sky)\, Hāwane Rios (Standing Above the Clouds)\, and Sancia Miala Shiba Nash (Ho’oulu Hou by kekahi wahi). Madilyne Nguyen-Acosta moderates the conversation. \nDoors open at 6:00 p.m.\, and the program begins with an immersive experience featuring the work of Kanaka Maoli composer and Pulitzer Prize nominee Leilehua Lanzilotti. The screenings will begin at 6:30 p.m. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms\, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu \n  \nImage: Leilehua Lanzilotti\, still from the sky in our hands\, our hands in the sky\, 2023. Single-channel video\, 46 minutes. Directed by Leilehua Lanzilotti; music by Leilehua Lanzilotti; cinematography by Gahlord Dewald. Courtesy of the artist. \n 
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/action-climate-awareness-activism/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250925T140000
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SUMMARY:International Students in Limbo
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. Co-sponsored by the NYU Migration Network\, NYU Center for Black Visual Culture\, and NYU Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies. \nRegistration for this program is now closed. Walk-in guests with a valid NYU ID will be admitted as capacity allows. \nInternational students studying in the United States have found themselves in the cross-hairs of many current federal policies and strategies. A majority of international students hail from Asian nations\, the rate of those arriving from Sub-Saharan Africa is growing at the fastest rate\, and Latinx students make up more than half of those who are undocumented and now increasingly being treated as international\, despite having lived in the United States for many years. From travel bans to visa revocations\, punitive measures against campus protests and cuts in federal funding of research\, recent actions have made the position of all these students quite precarious.      \nOf institutions with large shares of international students\, NYU ranks amongst the highest. With approximately 44% of its student body made up of international students\, this is an issue of particular urgency on our campus. This panel brings together scholars and experts to understand the historical and contemporary contexts of international educational exchange\, along with the implications and effects of current circumstances for the well-being of international and undocumented students. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to current NYU students\, staff\, and faculty. Registration is required. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms\, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu. \n  \n  \nImage: Photograph of the “Right to Learn Rally” which began at Washington Square Park and ended in Foley Square\, April 17\, 2025. Courtesy Professor Asli Perker.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/international-students-in-limbo/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250922
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SUMMARY:Pacific Island Film Festival 2025
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nSCHEDULE & TICKETS \nThe Pacific Island Film Festival (PIFF) of New York City is dedicated to telling a richer\, more comprehensive story of the Pacific Islands. PIFF endeavors to be a platform for indigenous Pacific Island voices to be heard and recognized—celebrating\, showcasing and cultivating the stories\, art\, talent and cultural resources of the Pacific Islands with the broader New York community. \nThis year’s festival presents feature length films and shorts by filmmakers from across the Pacific including Bati (dir. Andrew John Fakaua Ponton) and Kōkā (dir. Kath Akuhata-Brown). \n  \nAccessibility note: For access needs or any questions\, please contact PIFF at info@piffnyc.org. \n  \nImage: A still from the film Kōkā (2025).
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/pacific-island-film-festival-2025/
LOCATION:HI
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250917T180000
DTSTAMP:20250825T163555Z
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SUMMARY:Reels of Relation: An Indigenous Student Film Showcase
DESCRIPTION:An Indigenous Equinox Gatherings NYC Program. Presented by the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL). Co-sponsored by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nReels of Relation: An Indigenous Student Film Showcase features a line-up of films by Indigenous students. The screening is part of Center CIRCL’s Indigenous Equinox Gatherings NYC\, two days of activations for Indigenous presence and continuity in New York City. Additional activities include workshops\, panels\, and performances at NYU and other sites across the city. This event series also coincides with the fall equinox. The length of day and night are in balance in the days leading up to and after the autumnal equinox. \nThese gatherings inaugurate Center CIRCL’s biennial theme: This City is So Indigenous. They are a chance for students\, community members\, artists and educators to meet again in New York City\, starting a new season of study\, research\, struggle\, and relation. Featuring autonomous sessions planned by different Indigenous groups and organizations\, this two-day event will nourish the connections that will carry us through the months and years ahead. \n  \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. Photo ID is required for entrance into NYU buildings. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an access ramp entrance. The auditorium is on the first floor. There are elevators to take you to the restrooms with stalls. Restroom with urinals is on the first floor. All speakers will use microphones\, and will be encouraged to describe images. ASL interpreter services will be provided upon request at registration. If you have any access needs\, please email CenterCIRCL@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/reels-of-relation-an-indigenous-student-film-showcase/
LOCATION:NYU Espacio de Culturas\, 53 Washington Square S\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250912T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250912T160000
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SUMMARY:A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group Meeting & Social
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group. Hosted by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU. \nREGISTER \nThis year\, the A/P/A Graduate Student Working Group‘s monthly workshops and annual symposium (to be hosted March 5-6\, 2026) will be organized around the theme of “Grounds of Displacement\,” alongside the A/P/A Institute’s continued theme of “Asian/Pacific/American Prospects.” \nTo that end\, on Friday\, September 12 from 1:00-2:30 p.m.\, the group will be discussing the following readings to consider how the “Grounds of Displacement” can be applicable to various fields and topics and can be uniquely uniting amongst all of our projects during this political moment. \n\nReadings \n\n\n\nMegan Black\, “Empire Underground: The Stakes of U.S. Claims to Vertical Power”\nHarsha Walia\, “There is No ‘Migrant Crisis'”\n\n\n\nSuggested further reading \n\n\n\nLauren Carasik\, “The American ‘Deportation Mill'”\nAndrew Curley\, Carbon Sovereignty: Coal\, Development\, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation\nVictor Seow\, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia\n\n\n\n\nFollowing the workshop\, the group hosts a social (2:30-4:00 p.m.) for attendees to connect with fellow graduate students from NYU and nearby universities working in the field of Asian/Pacific/American Studies. \n\n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to graduate students from NYU and nearby universities. Registration is required. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/a-p-a-graduate-student-working-group-meeting-social-3/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 3rd floor\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250910T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250910T180000
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SUMMARY:20 Cooper Live! Centers & Institutes Open House
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that 20 Cooper Square is home to over a dozen Provostial Centers and Institutes at NYU?Join us for a dynamic open house on Wednesday\, September 10. We invite all NYU students\, staff\, and faculty to visit current exhibitions at 20 Cooper Square\, and learn more about the Centers and Institutes and our groundbreaking research and programming. \nJoin us on the third floor to make buttons using images from the Asian/Pacific/American Institute (A/P/A) special collections\, which document A/P/A history\, art\, and communities. Learn about our programs and initiatives for undergraduate students\, graduate students\, and faculty. Browse the full open house schedule and list of activities. \n\n\n\nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to current NYU students\, staff\, and faculty. Registration is not required. \nAccessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall\, all gender restrooms\, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs\, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
URL:https://apa.nyu.edu/event/20-cooper-live-centers-institutes-open-house/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, NY\, 10003
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